Engineering physics senior Angel Hernandez is spending the summer looking to the stars and learning the fundamentals of radio astronomy. Earlier this summer, Hernandez completed a boot camp on radio ...

The pre-teen will be virtually attending Arizona State University this May after she graduates high school Twelve-year-old Alena Wicker has dreamed of working for NASA since she was a little girl. Now ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- The use of Global Positioning System technology is so widespread that its availability is almost taken for granted. However, there may come a time when using GPS is not an ...

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.210040, Researchers led by Professor Daewook Kim from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA consider advances in optical ...

Astronomers and engineers have developed a specialized system for their radio telescope to rapidly detect mysterious fast radio bursts and other space phenomena. The first trial of an ...

An engineer's quest to fix radio interference in 1933 unexpectedly led to a monumental discovery. Karl Jansky's rotating ...

Years after the advent of decent VR hardware, there are still precious few ways the technology has been employed as anything other than a game or gimmick. One team at NASA, however, has been ...

A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and ...

When the thrice-delayed Artemis I moon rocket finally does get off the ground, it will carry a “moonikin” honoring a Hispanic engineer who helped bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home safely. NASA is ...

SPIE ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES + INSTRUMENTATION TO HIGHLIGHT LATEST ENGINEERING ADVANCEMENTS IN MAJOR TELESCOPE PROJECTS INCLUDING JWST The biennial meeting, held in person for the first time since ...

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach. Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia’s ...